What does take one's bat and ball and go home mean?

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take one's bat and ball and go home

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English

Syllables: take one's -bat and bal-l and -go home
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verb

Alternative form of take one's ball and go home.

Inflected Forms

takes one's bat and ball and goes home (present, singular) taking one's bat and ball and going home (participle, present) took one's bat and ball and went home (past) taken one's bat and ball and gone home (participle, past)

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